Archive: 31/08/2016
Accumulation of a product of cell metabolism found to be linked with kidney tumor growth
Researchers funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) have shown that when the metabolite fumarate accumulates in a hereditary form of renal cancer it leads to an epigenetic reprogramming that drives cancer, according ...
Aug 31, 2016
Building the world's largest health study on heart-, vascular- and lung diseases
SCAPIS, a population-based health research project on heart-, vascular- and lung diseases, is launched today in Umeå, Sweden. The project's aim is to build the world's largest collection of health data in order to identify ...
Aug 31, 2016
Half-a-million people experience food insecurity in British Columbia, says new report
Almost half a million British Columbians experienced some level of household food insecurity in 2011-2012, according to a new report from PROOF, a research group based at the University of Toronto.
Aug 31, 2016